Jalapeño marks OpenAI’s move into custom chips, while Broadcom strengthens its role as AI’s infrastructure provider.

June 24 (Reuters) - Qualcomm is in talks to provide chip-design services to China's ByteDance, four people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. company seeks to reduce dependence on the smartphone market,

It could still be years before we see this impacting commercial production, but new sub-nm chips show where the tech is headed.

IBM just unveiled the world's first sub 1-nanometer chip: 100 billion transistors. IBM also says they've produced functioning devices with this technology.

The shift into chip AI automation comes after the company unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first Intelligence Processor, co-designed with Broadcom. That inference chip, the first of multiple underway, used OpenAI's models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process.

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip signals a deeper push into AI infrastructure, but cost savings and independence from Nvidia still depend on scale.

Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors.

ChipAgents has introduced Renoir, an agentic large language model (LLM) whose name means “renew.” In early chip design benchmarks, Renoir outperforms the base model it was trained on and cuts costs by more than half.